Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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.'l ' ' ' BOYS IN SPORTS During the last half century, the high schools of New York have steadily been building reputations in various athletic fields. Lafayette has achieved athletic recognition in the short time of a decade. Up until 1947, Lafayette had the reputation of possessing one of the poor- est football teams in the city. In the three short years since Harry Ostro took over the reins of the gridders, Lafayette has become one of the dominant powers in P.S.A.L. competition. ln 1949, the Eleven posted the most victories ever recorded by a Maroon team. Next year's team will sorely miss the great broken field running of Ciro Masso and the'solid linework of Herby Tanzer. As tradition has it the soccer team, under the leadership of Coach Sy Yudell has once again brought the Brooklyn Soccer Crown to Lafayette. The booters will lose the services of three outstanding All-Scholastic players. Snooty Fertman, our splendid goalie, Herman Druckman and Vinnie Pal- mieri, who also started for the varsity nine, will be among the outstanding graduates of the Iune '50 class. Other standout booters who will graduate are Co-Captain Ioe Aniano. Paul Kaltinick, Iohn Kovacs. Ice DiPace. and Dick Menahem. Once again the Lafayette Cagers have developed their share of stand- out players. Sal Bonafede paced the team with two hundred and seven points and Vinnie Zoda captured second place with one hundred ninety-five points. Captain Rollo De Rossi, Tony Glorioso, Ralph Longo and Coach George Eggers also departed. The baseball team, under tutelage of their new coach, Chuck Sheerin. have just completed another successful season. Their greatest loss will be last year's All-Scholastic catcher, Mike Napoli. One of the lesser publicized squads in the school, the handball team, under Iulie Iacobs, will feel the loss of Co-Captains Howie Iagoda and Max Braverman. Monroe Horden, one of the outstanding doubles players in the city, will also receive his diploma this Iune. The class of Iune '50 has witnessed the formation of a new squad in Lafayette. A Rifle Team, guided by Mr. Berk. has been entered in P.S.A.L. competition. Sharpshooting Ioe Incantalupo will be long remembered as the first captain of the team. The gfwdzmtes of june 1950, who played on the varsity teams, have upheld the honor and tmdiliofz of Lafayette High Sehool. We hope that future graduatifzg flame! will eonrizzue to retain thix fue tradition. by RONALD ELLMAN. BII.LY HANDEL. and IRWIN SCHERAGO Twenty-seven

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GIRLS IN SPCRTS Gingerly we entered the gym, conscious of the hush that ensued and the stares that followed us. Nervously we looked at the proud and haughty girls clad in maroon uniforms surrounding us. For we were the new batch of Leaders, ready to start our training which would some day enable us to be- come Iunior Coaches. Little did we realize how much of our future' days in Lafayette would be spent in these surroundings. The weeks and months that followed were a maze of sports. Guard your man: iump ball: side out: badminton is a wrist movement: strike one, ball two: these were only some of the expressions that became all too familiar to us. Every afternoon we remained in school for such clubs as basketball, softball, volleyball, tennis, handball, and badminton. We learned not only how to play these sports, but also to referee them. But it was more than the, games themselves, for it was the good sportsmanship we learned and the feeling We got after playing a good, clean game. And finally, after two terms of listening and being taught, we became Iunior Coaches and were ready to teach others. Some of us had even be- come outstanding in various sports. Liz Gervasi. Coach vice-president, showed excellent form on the basketball court, and soon became one of the star forwards of our team. Vinny Sicurella. Coach treasurer, was as nimble at second base as she was on the volleyball court. Few girls could beat Eleanor Balter on the tennis, badminton, and handball courts. Flo Mancine was outstanding in volleyball and basketball, as was Marilyn Umansky in handball and Volleyball. Sylvia Greenberg, Coach president, played basket- ball as well as she played first base on our softball team. And then our work in the gym classes began. We helped the teachers instruct the girls in, not only all the sports, but in modern dancing, folk danc- ing and stunts. We worked with such excellent modern dance exponents as Iudith Schwartz. Molly Stacker, Mildred Vinceguerra. and Connie Grasso. We had the experience of playing basketball with Ioan Cirrincione and Ioan Campo, two girls who really gave us competition. And we also came in contact with such all-around athletes as Ellen Mae Young and Vivian Buiio. l'm sure that the entire graduating class remembers the tremendous show that was put on by the gym department in the spring of '49. Under the excellent direction of the teachers we showed every phase of the girls' athletic life at Lafayette since the school was constructed. There was a bas- ketball demonstration, folk, tap, and modern dancing, stunts, and the Big Apple. Our performances received a tremendous ovation, and l'm certain that all of us remember it, for, of the ninety participants, many were the girls of this graduating class. Lafayette has proved to be a place for more than just academic instruction. It has become a school where we learn how to physically train our bodies and how to work and play alongside others with friendship and sportsmanship as our goal. SYLVIA GREENBERG Twenty-six

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